It's not that we're human beings trying to have a spiritual experience, but rather we're spiritual beings having a human experience.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass."
"I'm just a human being trying to make it
in a world that is very rapidly losing its understanding of being human."
Being human is a precious situation, and we shouldn't waste time in useless activities.
